PORT OF GREY., v,,

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1699, 14 January 1874, Page 2

PORT OF GREY.

HIGH WATER. s - This Day- -5.44 a.m. ; 6.23 p.m. ' ARRIVED. January 13— Nflr .>{ r ) /' :'imisp, ,'!!'!' :\ •' ■ - ; ' ' January 13 — Titan, p.s, M'Meikau, for HekitiKi^EortyTpasserigers.- D. Maclean, : and Co, agents. <• Wallacoi:'^.^^l^m\t; { '^ !> Westport. Twenty passengers. '" Pjirser, agent. Jf EXPECTEp ARRTVALS. // Charles Ed^ard^frpg^Nelsbn. JSlurray,. fr.pm Nelson.. , , r v , , > i -„-- -Kennedy,'from Nelsdn. j Tarawa, from M^Uipurno.. „.., .. , . ' ' Amarha,' from fei/efton: ' ■ ' * l Kate Conley, f rom M ejbourno. Alharabrajfrorri Melbourne.' ' Sarah; at^d AJary , from ;Lytteltou. .i^jspajtch^-tug-'stoamer,.,- . ,;/,;•; : t . •:... v

There were no arriirals at the port yestcr- : day. The departures w.ere ;the iTitan, for Hokitikaj-'With a. number; of excursionists, and.thb' Wallace, 1 for Westport and Nelson. The Tarafiia, from Melbourne direct, was sighted "Off rTokitika-at stfndPWn-iasr night." After being tendc.redtheru(she will come on to Greymouth, and be despatched from here this day at 3 p.m. . he rbturn of tablesi allowing the progress of British shippiiig,' recently issued, i 3 in mostrespactp a satiafactpry paper "It sho\ya that between 1850 and 1871, the tonnage of shipping; that [ [entered i -.and; cleared •' at; the porjts pi the ignited lKingdomiTic^ef irpml4;siis,oG4 tb.41,-547,878 jtQns. 'fhisjis. mora ; t|ian^donblei the^opmmerce; pf the nierchaut; shipping of ohe jljnited Jijtates^andmbrq than' trpple thait.of Erance. :The,-aggregate tpnnage .. of the merchant , navy ofj the;^British Empire ia ;18Jl] .was, 7i143,891! ; .tons, i',,aa , against 2,65T,27Q,t0ns jiniJSjS.! .ja jsn.the'totzil' tonnage ,of ; jvessels built- ,tlio United; JK.ing r > doim "was 391,058, as against 236,50i.40a5ijju,; J§.5,8. 0 .Thesetptals sho>v. only, the,. degreei'pf prqgfess,;iw;e;, Should . have ; ( t , €|ther, ; tota's, however, are not so satisfactory,,, ,1^ 18.G4,.Wfi4b.uilti^497: tons pf, .shipping" fqr.^jir purposes for foreigners. In 18C,6.,we.:b,uilt. 10,301 tons of shipping of-the'same description ; in (1868; 10. 254 -tons;, in"1869, 2354 tons;; in/1870, 970., t0n5'; and/ in 1871, only 80 tons. In 1140 the riumber.of apprentices enrolled' was 1,6^704 ; the. number of cancelLvjtion,.. deaths, and expirations being 7412. la 1872, the number .enrolled were 4360 ;_ the" number, caucelled,' 4CH3.; ,In J 856, L 852 was paid to 74 seamen who volunteered into the flojal'^avy ;.;mUB5l>, ;L1180 ; tp 52 volunteers. Neither in 1869). 1871,' nor , was;, thero.i a single. volunteer , ficom ,the mercantile marine. For the three years preceding 186.9, 1 thcj; sums jgi^en annuallyr/by, the .Board pf Trade in aid of new lifeboats and :of; r th© : crews of lifeboats for services at wrecks, haye 1 stink ftdm. L 5400 (average)- ta iL494 'in 1872. • T^9 jr^wards and, g^atui^ies; to fisherL men and others for servicos in saving life was L3^s !iHB6BTin'IB72 > bnly l i/12 was so-dis-tributed. The statistic^. ;of-4he number of : the«j lives imperilled,, lives lost, and, lives sawt " : Binhttally do' hot vary much 1 . In 1872, out of 5220 lives imperilled, only :590 were 1